Q 01/05

The original Cincinnati club was expelled from the National League in 1880 for selling beer and what else?

A) Paying players too much

B) Playing on Sundays

C) Using a livelier ball

D) Admitting women free

Answer · why

B) Playing on Sundays

Neither practice was actually against the rules yet; both were popular with the city's large German population.

Q 02/05

The modern Reds were a charter member of which league in 1882, winning its first pennant?

A) Union Association

B) National League

C) American Association

D) Players' League

Answer · why

C) American Association

The league was founded at Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson after a bluff by telegram convinced owners that everyone else was coming.

Q 03/05

The Reds' first World Series title, in 1919, came against which team amid a scandal?

A) Detroit Tigers

B) Boston Red Sox

C) New York Yankees

D) Chicago White Sox

Answer · why

D) Chicago White Sox

The Black Sox affair, revealed the next year, forever tainted the club's 'Golden Anniversary' championship.

Q 04/05

Which electronics magnate, maker of radios and refrigerators, bought the Reds out of bankruptcy in 1933?

A) Bill DeWitt

B) Powel Crosley Jr.

C) Carl Lindner

D) Larry MacPhail

Answer · why

B) Powel Crosley Jr.

He also founded WLW radio, the club's flagship station, and Redland Field was renamed for him in 1934.

Q 05/05

Crosley Field hosted the first what in Major League history, in 1935?

A) Sunday doubleheader

B) Televised game

C) Night game

D) Ladies' Day

Answer · why

C) Night game

It was also the first fireworks night, courtesy of Joe Rozzi of Rozzi's Famous Fireworks.